The Rundown

On a relatively cool 65 degree morning in San Francisco, Kurt laced up, found a hill-less six-mile stretch and destroyed his old personal be...

There are bad runs, and then there are bad runs. Last night was the latter. I decided to replace the 8 MP on the schedule for an easy 16, ge...

Kurt has offered to shield me and my foot from the winds off the lake. Here's a peak at the turn back to the east, a view of left shoul...

I read somewhere a running equivalent for aqua-jogging is your in-pool heartbeat plus 13 beats per minute, due to the fact the water keeps y...

I’m stopping running for at least a week. After three days of off and on discomfort in my right heel, I ran 8 yesterday on the treadmill wi...

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get worse. --Steve Prefontaine

Just do it, so he is. Ed has entered Chicago to speed-walk the loop from downtown to Wrigley to Comisky and back, his second marathon of th...

Where we're at Kurt has run a 16 mile long and turned in a quick 50:12 10K; I've reached my first 20 miler but haven't run a tim...

From: Kurt Tuesday, August 02, 2005 Today's run Ran half mile intervals each around 3:20. 5 of them with 1/2 mile slow jogs / walks in...

Back on the road. After 6 weeks of rest and rehab from four stress fractures, Kurt showed off his bike-spun VO2 this week with his first 5K...

Cranking the treadmill up to a 1% grade is equal in the effort of a land run. So says this bit of research, A 1% TREADMILL GRADE MOST ACCUR...

Still dizzy and queazy from severe dyhydration an hour after NY 2003. Shortly after this shot, I slumped on a curb in west Central Park whil...

Just plug in your max heart rate and resting heart rate, and it gives you the ranges for the 5 training zones. MHR is genetically predetermi...

Here's a better way to figure max heart rate. This is important in figuring training zones – how fast to run intervals, longs, tempos. 2...

Curious about how S. Fla.'s high temps and humidity were impacting my runs in the summer, I looked everywhere for this. More science: ...

For every pound you lose, you are one minute faster in a marathon. Science. At 182 (4:29), if you could get down to 152, you wouldn't ...

You can minimize the wear and tear on your body by replacing up to 25 percent of your mileage with biking, swimming, deep water running, ell...

Here's the most common and simplistic formula to measure effort based on heart beats: 220 - your age = maximum heart rate (MHR) For Kurt...

My desktop. New York's blue line through Central Park. Lottery in mid-June, both Kurt and I are in the pool. 2006?

I once read a ditty in RW that said you know you're a marathoner if 18 weeks is an important block of time. So here we are -- 18 weeks ...

Great site for calculator. Plug in your latest 5K or 10K time trial....and it tells you how fast you should be doing your easy runs, tempos...

I've always said the toughest part of marathoning is getting to the start line. By that, I mean it's so difficult avoiding the minef...

Kurt is officially chronic with another bout of shin splints, and heading to a sports physician next week, probably ending up with a new pai...

Hills (for me, bridges over the Intracoastal and I-95) start this week on our schedule. Here's suggestions from Jeff Galloway, for sub-4...

You know that feeling at the end of a marathon or long runs where your legs tighten and grow excessively fatigued, like you're running i...

The first 6-week session down, four to go. Just like that. We had a kidney stone, illness, shin splints, bought core ball, new shoes, and st...

Progressing nicely with running/workouts till this week5, when baseball took over. Five-game tournament over the weekend, and a couple more ...

Blood in the urine. Who wants to read about that ? Well, for years, I couldn't read enough about it. I couldn't talk to enough docto...

You say you're going out for a short run, and come back two hours later.....You shower 12 times a week.....You start buying energy gels ...

Postscript on yesterday's post: The docs decided the stone was too close to the kidney to obliterate it with shock waves. So Kurt opte...

Which hurts more? It's not even close, actually. Take your worst-ever ending of a marathon, the one where you're bonking badly, dehy...

Back in 1983, my first serious bout of shinsplints sidelined me only weeks before my second Orange Bowl marathon with Roy. Talk about disapp...

Bingo! http://www.coachbenson.com/images/8090.pdf This Coach Benson site is great. This particular chart gives you the 10K time (51:00 min...

Spiffed out in mylar and Breathright. (Kurt, Chi04)

It's pre-dawn, still dark out, wife's asleep, you put on your shorts, tank, socks, shoes. Squeek! Like you're killing a mouse...

Based on 5K or 10K times, how fast should you run on an easy or recovery run (60-75% effort)? Or a 20-minute tempo run (80% effort)? Or hill...

Hitting the wall may have less to do with running out of glycogen, more to do with damaged muscles that send signals to the brain to slow do...

Germs from traveling left Kurt sick all week, an occupational hazard. As new training gear, he's thinking about wearing a white surgical...

AP, CNN and others reporting this morning that Vioxx may be coming back out on the market. New science shows the unique benefit of the drug ...

Imagine a knee so screwed up, pieces of cartilage, about the size of a quarter, float around freely, unattached, in the joint's fluids, ...

My butt feels like somebody poured concrete in my glutes. Or whacked the hell out of it with a two-by-four. Sore sore. Tenderized. I need...

Sounds boring already, and I promised. But it's been bugging me. Do we get faster by training longer at marathon pace? Or should we stic...

Three easy miles (8:56 pace), thirty minutes lifting/situps, nine chocolate chip cookies before bed. Two steps forward, one backward. Lanc...

Running under 4 hours? C'mon....what about my age, my limited running abilities (other than I keep going), my history of chronic injuri...

Me, 26.2 seconds after finishing Chicag04.

My brother Kurt, marathon virgin no more, unsure about doing a second.

Soaking it up, poolside at Buckingham Fountain

And it rained. And it rained. And it rained. My best memories of running the New York City marathon, the race I’d wanted to run more than an...

The day before the race Sitting in a small cafe on Boyston Street, the heart of downtown Boston was looking rather grim. Darkening clouds, d...